...places ; not considering that Nature loves truth so well that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to Nature what paint is to Beauty : it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. There is a certain majesty in simplicity, which 1 Pope...

...who gives himself airs of Importance exhibits the credentials of impotence. Lavater. INFLUENCE OP. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. Pope. NATURAL то HUMANITY. I say that conceit is just...

...no man so often as by Pope, and by Pope nowhere so often as in this poem." 1. Conceit. Affected wit. "Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless but impairs what it would improve." — Pope. 2. fit. Proper. " Fit audience find, though...

...is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — Hazlitl. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. — Pope. I will not be as those who spend the day in...

...HAZLITT. The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others. — CHARRON. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. — POPE. Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than...

...cannot delight in the sun. [4. Nature loves truth so well that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. 15. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than...

...necessity lead us to the grossest absurdities, and stillest pedantry and conceit. SHAFTESBURY, I., p. 202. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. 1706. POPE, VI., p. 51. Some to conceit alone their taste...

...in the sun. Sir P. Sidney. 27. Nature loves truth so well that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. Pope. 28. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable,...

...The country needs repose, and repose can only be found in everlasting principles. — Charles Sumner. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless but it impairs what it would improve. — Pope. Conceit may puff a man up, but can never prop...

...to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty: it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. Vice is a monster of such hideous mien That to be hated...